A little woman with a rope in her hand sprang from the verandah and ran screaming into the forest.

"Look, look, it's mother!" screamed the two sisters. "She's going into the jungle to hang herself!"

They gave a withering look at their brother, Maung Thein, and shouted, "It's all your fault! It's all your fault! You've driven your mother mad, and if she commits suicide, we'll call you a murderer!"

The village people gathered and asked, "Why don't you undo it? Why don't you undo this baptism?"

You'll be inspired by this story of a young man's unshakeable faith. Although some of the incidents recorded have been mentioned in other volumes, this is the first time the full story of Maung Thein has been made available in a stand-alone book.

This storybook almost never exsisted, for it was only some time after storyteller Eric B. Hare's passing that daughter-in-law, Patti Hare, found his handwritten manuscript and carefully transcribed it, and submitted it for publication.